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Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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Margaret Atwood: Another belief of...

Margaret Atwood: Another belief of...

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in...

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Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Source: From...

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Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

A young man's ambition [is] to get along in the world and make a place for himself half your life goes that way, till...

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Nelson Algren: Literature is made...

Nelson Algren: Literature is made...

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with...

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Mary Stewart: I reached for...

Mary Stewart: I reached for...

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful...

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John LeCarre: For decades to...

John LeCarre: For decades to...

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is...

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Judith Krantz: I have only...

Judith Krantz: I have only...

I have only one reader -- me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry...

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Anthony Powell: Growing old's like...

Anthony Powell: Growing old's like...

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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Michael Crichton: In the information...

Michael Crichton: In the information...

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish...

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Mario Puzo: He was. ....

Mario Puzo: He was. ....

He was. . . a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war...

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Mary McCarthy: The happy ending...

Mary McCarthy: The happy ending...

The happy ending is our national belief.

Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1, America...

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Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still -- the veil that hides you from the infinite,...

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John LeCarre: I move my...

John LeCarre: I move my...

I move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good English.

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John Bunyan: Some said, John,...

John Bunyan: Some said, John,...

Some said, John, print it; other said, Not so:
Some said, It might do good; others said,...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: There is a...

Mary McLeod Bethune: There is a...

There is a place in God's sun for the youth farthest down who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to...

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Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of...

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Antonio Porchia: You do not...

Antonio Porchia: You do not...

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

Source:...

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Epictetus: He who exercises...

Epictetus: He who exercises...

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Source: In The...

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Immanuel Kant: Out of timber...

Immanuel Kant: Out of timber...

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be...

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